Kudos Cardea Super 10 Speakers

Derek Gilligan has been designing high quality loudspeakers for 21 years and has developed the Cardea Super 10 to celebrate this anniversary. The Super 10 is designed without compromise and uses the very finest quality components.
The Super 10 shares the same 12 litre cabinets with the C10, Kudos' established stand-mount reference. The drive units are some of the best in the world; produced for Kudos by SEAS in Norway – a company with almost 60 years of expertise in this field. The K2 tweeter is developed exclusively for Kudos from the famous Crescendo unit. The main drive unit, developed by Kudos and manufactured by SEAS features a copper shorting ring to minimise eddy currents, an aluminium phase plug to act as a heat-sink and a hand-treated paper cone. This drive unit has been specifically designed for this application and to integrate superbly with the K2 tweeter.

Kudos Cardea Super 10 Speakers
Designing the drive units to integrate seamlessly allows the use of a minimal, low-order crossover reducing phase errors, blurring and other unwanted artefacts. Each crossover component has been carefully tested and selected for its performance in the Super 10 including Mundorf inductors, resistors, and ‘Mcap® Supreme Silver/Gold/Oil’ capacitors. These parts are produced to extremely tight tolerances and then hand-matched for use in the Super 10. The Chord Company internal wiring is carefully chosen for its musicality and resistance to the effects of vibration.
*NEW*: Kudos & Linn Exakt
Kudos have been working with industry leaders Linn to bring the incredible performance of Linn Exakt into Kudos top-of-the-range of loudspeakers, including the Super 10.
Launched by Linn in 2013, Exakt is a ground-breaking new technology that turns the loudspeaker into an intelligent, connected, software upgradeable product and delivers the most direct connection ever made between listener and artist.
Exakt enables a wide range of performance- and personalisation-enhancing capabilities in design, in manufacture and in-home. Sources of noise and distortion that exist in the traditional analogue hi-fi chain are eliminated so what is heard is a more faithful reproduction of the music as it was recorded.
In a system using an Exaktbox, the original analogue crossover in the loudspeaker is bypassed and instead, the Akurate Exaktbox performs the crossover digitally, while applying Linn’s Exakt technology to eliminate distortion, correct for drive unit variation and optimise the loudspeakers’ performance for the room.
Kudos is delighted to be working closely with Linn to deliver Exakt support for its three top-of-range speakers: the Super 10, Super 20 and the new flagship Titan 808.
Read more about Linn Exact technology
Type:
2 way, Bass Reflex
Recommended Amplifier Power:
25W – 300W
Sensitivity:
87 dB / @ 1 W / 1 m
Nominal Impedance:
8 ohms
Frequency range:
40 Hz – 30 kHz “AIRR” (average in room response)
Tweeter:
SEAS - Kudos Crescendo K2 29 mm fabric dome
Mid bass driver:
SEAS - Kudos 180 mm with copper shorting ring and hand treated paper cone
Dimensions:
350 x 200 x 270 mm
Weight:
10 kg
Finishes:
Black oak, cherry, oak, walnut, rosenut, satin white
Kudos Cardea Super 10 Speakers